Farmwithjunk
Super Member
Yeah, I didn't plan on being overweight...
No, I'm not a contractor, I do not own a business. I'm a Mechanical engineer by day, play with toys at night. I have never taken my equipment anywhere to make money with them.
I'm thinking about a 8000-10,000 GVW trailer. My tractor weighs ~5000 lbs, trailer would weigh ~2200-2500 lbs.
I don't think so... Maybe on a 8000 GVW trailer, but I don't own any implements close to 800 lbs...
I don't believe I'm doing that, even with a 8000 GVW trailer... Some of you guys seem to be telling me I need to be ~2000 lbs or something under the load rating of the trailer or I'm being "irresponsible"? Really? Is there an established non-irresponsible number to be under the load capacity of the trailer I am not aware of? Should I only ever haul 75% of what the trailer is rated for?
Loading a 5000 lbs tractor on a trailer that can haul 5800 lbs is wrong?
Anyways, this thread was more about narrowing up my 4610 as opposed to hauling safety 101, and thanks to some advice from aczlan, I found out I am able to do so 82" wide to 78" wide, with minimal fender modification, and keeping the ROPS. Good deal IMO.
Yeah, whatta I know about hauling tractors on a trailer anyway.....Just that I currently own 4 truck/trailers and average somewhere near 90,000 miles of hauling/towing a year because of my business.....
You MIGHT want to consider that tractor won't weigh 5000lbs in all likelyhood. You're looking at a "dry shipping weight". (Which Ford claimed as 4885 DRY WEIGHT on a base model w/o rops, smaller tires, ect...to a max weight of 8250 with "factory installed options") Any 4000 Ford I've ever been around will hit the scales closer to 6000+ without added ballast. Then you have ROPS, chains/binders, fluids, ect, plus whatever implement you're hauling with the tractor. My 6' Bush Hog weighs over 1000lbs. Got a 7'er that scales closer to 1500lbs.
Then again, no one says common sense is "common".......